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I have a win7 computer that has the Fake.HDD Rouge malware and I have tried to run iExplore.exe, eXplore.exe, rkill.com, WiNlOgOn.exe several times in safe mode with networking and get the message "windows has encountered a critical problem and will reboot in 1 minute" and it reboots after stopping one process. How do i keep it from rebooting?

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I have a win7 computer that has the Fake.HDD Rouge malware and I have tried to run iExplore.exe, eXplore.exe, rkill.com, WiNlOgOn.exe several times in safe mode with networking and get the message "windows has encountered a critical problem and will reboot in 1 minute" and it reboots after stopping one process. How do i keep it from rebooting?

Hi! i was so relieved to see that you had the same issue as me... until I saw there are no relies =(.

Im running windows Vista and the virus I have is Live Security Platinum. Instructions im following to remove the virus direct me to use rkill.exe renamed as various .exe files and warns "not to reboot the computer because the virus will restart as well and undo anything accomplished with rkill"

The problem is that the same error occurs that you are having, and my computer auto reboots in 1 minute.

I noticed that there is a application that opens when rkill triggers the 1 minute reboots error that has the same imitation logo of adobe acrobat that the virus used to manipulate installation in the first place. I notice this because it appears on the bottom bar that displays minimized windows.

The infected computer is my wife's. I only get to work on it on weekends. this past weekend i was running different named versions of the rkill program and trying different things. by terminating the reboot by unplugging the computer i got an option on the F8 screen to repair my system because it had not shut down properly. in selecting this option I was able to do a system restore to an earlier date and was able to boot into normall windows and run rkill. it stopped a process and I was able to install and run malwarebytes which identified 14 programs and delete them. I will try and get the logs next weekend for you, hopefully the info will help with future versions of rkill. after cleaning the system I had to unhide several directories and files and mozilla would not run(already running message) but I had her reinstall it and I think it is fine now also.